Turkish air raid kills 7 civilian Kurds

Turkish warplanes have once more targeted civilian Kurds during a raid carried out on Sunday. According to local correspondents for Rojhelat.info a warplane targeted a truck carrying a family trying to escape the bombardment. The victims were from the village of Kortek, in Qalat Diza, about 180 kilometers northeast of Sulaymani along the Turkey-Iraq border.

In a phone call to CNN on Sunday, a PKK spokesman placed the blame for the latest round of hostilities squarely on the Turkish government and its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“Erdogan has decided for an all-out war,” said Roj Welat. “We will use our right to defend ourselves and our people. … There will be new things probably, new developments will occur, but in what way I cannot say. But all I can say is Kurds will defend themselves. And we are calling on all the European countries, especially the United States, not to support state terror.”

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